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Joanna Lumley
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Biography
Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley DBE FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is a British actress, presenter, former model, author, television producer, and activist. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête. In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards, and in 2017 she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award. Lumley's other television credits include The New Avengers (1976–1977), Sapphire & Steel (1979–1982), Sensitive Skin (2005–2007), Jam & Jerusalem (2006–2008) and Finding Alice (2021–present) as well as playing Elaine Perkins in Coronation Street in 1973. Her film appearances include On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Shirley Valentine (1989), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Ella Enchanted (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016). She had roles in two episodes of Are You Being Served? (1973–1975) written by Jeremy Lloyd, whom she had married and divorced three years prior to her first appearance on the show. Lumley is an advocate and human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign. She supports charities and animal welfare groups, such as Compassion in World Farming and Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals. Lumley was made a Dame (DBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to drama, entertainment and charity.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Corpse Bride
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Paddington 2
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Me Before You
As Mary Rawlinson
Ella Enchanted
As Dame Olga
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
As The English Girl
James and the Giant Peach
As Aunt Spiker
The House That Dripped Blood
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Breaking the Frame: A Journey Through the Fourth Wall
It began with a gun, a bullet, and an audience leaping out of their seats. When Justus D. Barnes leveled his revolver at the camera in The Great Train Robbery (...
8 films
Open Doors: Cinema That Sees Everyone
From a deaf drummer to a queer romance in space, these eight films expand who gets to be a hero, a lover, a survivor. A journey through inclusive storytelling t...
8 films
The Long Goodbye to the Small Screen
A journey through the films that turned television's intimate glow into cinema's grand spectacle, and back again.
6 films
The Ghosts We Carry
A journey through stop-motion films that turn loss into art, from mainstream masterpieces to hidden gems.
8 films
Pure-Hearted Heroes
Sixty years after Batman '66 taught us that heroism can be bright, sincere, and utterly without irony, this chain celebrates films whose protagonists believe, s...
7 films
Growing Pains: Sequels That Leap Through Time
From a Parisian afternoon to a boxing ring, these sequels skip years ahead and find their characters changed, challenged, and achingly familiar. A journey throu...
6 films
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Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years
2020 · Narrator
Paddington 2
2017 · Felicity Fanshaw
Me Before You
2016 · Mary Rawlinson
Gangsta Granny
2013 · The Queen
The Wolf of Wall Street
2013 · Aunt Emma
Corpse Bride
2005 · Maudeline Everglot (voice)
The Magic Roundabout
2005 · Ermintrude (voice)
Ella Enchanted
2004 · Dame Olga
James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Aunt Spiker
The House That Dripped Blood
1971
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · The English Girl